Boosting hives, Watch How I Do It- May 23 

NZ beekeeper here of 40 years experience. I am finding lots to learn from you. I am most impressed with your whole operation and your ability to communicate what’s going on. Well done.

Thanks for your always excellent explanations and video!

I appreciate the videos. Great information.

I have a queen going on her third season still laying good. I guess I will let them requeen when they think its time.Thanks.

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Have you ever, tried those long bee boxes? I don't know what, they are called. If you have, what is your take, on those type of bee boxes? Thank you for your videos. I always learn a lot.

What are you spraying the brood frames with before adding them to the weaker colony and why? Thanks

Morning In an elongated supersedure cell will the queen be able to access the royal jelly ? What do you look for to manage them if say they were on 5 separate frames ?

Watch were ya sit. 🐝 I forgot what that spray was. Tho I remember that it eases mixing hives ? together.

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I have used your method of boosting a weak hive by using newspaper and a queen excluder . I had the strong hive on the bottom and stacked the weak hive on the top. You idea of letting the stronger hive's bees work their way into the weak hive on top. My question is how long do you keep the weak hive stacked on top before you remove it and place in it's own hive with bottom board?

a lot work, and die colony, Ian this time Check all hive ? a year check how many time ?

Thanks for sharing your experience Last question on the queenless hive Would they have accepted a frame from the hive with the supersede cell ?

New beekeeper here. How do you know its a supersedure and not a swarm cell. Thanx

You don't change the year of the queen even when you know it is being superseded. So the year is when the queen is purposely installed by you and as long as colony maintains size and strength without a new queen being installed by you, the year remains the same to show their continual ability to maintain their nest themselves. Is that your pattern of thinking?

The hive that is replacing their gueen, do you mark that replacement on your tag to track the new queen? It seems tricky to keep up with the queen history of so many hives.

I see strip of something in the hives. Some sort of mite management I am thinking. What is it?

The hive that is going to requeen itself, will you see a significant honey loss for the season?👍

which camera you use for your videos

Checked today and I see a capped queen cell. I think I have a laying worker. I lost my queen from a package so I got a frame of bee with young eggs in it so they could make a queen cell. I did not have any laying queen but three days after putting in the frame of young egg I now have several frame with capped brood and young eggs. Did I have a queen that just did not get started for three weeks or what. So how long before this queen cell will hatch. Will the new queen kill the other queen if I have one or the laying worker. Not sure what to do. Advice please. Thank You, this is Larry

Why wouldn’t you place some of the bees from the queenless hive into the small queen right hive?

Spraying with sugarwater? Is that to stop the bees fighting with the new nurse bees?

Why wouldn’t you take the old queen and let them go on . Upon merging they push old queen out you will lose a portion of the strength of that hive . I had that this week on a hive I had accidentally blocked entrance of queen cage and they made 6 cells I took small split and took queen in cage away and let her go in my small split . Better to save and watch and maybe give new queen later to replace old queen ..

Got very distracted watching Carrie barehand grab that queen in the background

Also, I forgot to ask. How many bee boxes do you have in your Apiary? Currently.

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LOL, queen cell ，Plan A Plan B 🙃🙃haha